Thank you for your piece on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We need to do more to understand this issue and help those many brave men and women who deal with it every day due to their military service.

Sadly, it seems that the government now wants to do less to help our veterans, rather than more. They recently tried to cut veterans’ retirement benefits, although this was thankfully reversed due to public outcry. Now the Pentagon has proposed a massive rollback of health care benefits.

The excuse given is that we must cut spending. Then why are we spending $1.5 trillion on a new fighter jet known as the F-35 that our own test pilots think will get shot down as soon as it faces a dogfight?

I’m in favor of fiscal responsibility, but there are better ways to save than by cutting health care for veterans.

Albert Gonzales, Colorado Springs

This letter was published in the March 31 edition.

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